A level 1 was issued for N Norway mainly for severe wind gusts.
A level 1 was issued for Ionian Sea and parts of S Italy mainly for waterspouts.
A level 1 was issued for S Greece and S Aegean Sea mainly for severe wind gusts and large hail.
Ridge on the 500 hPa layer extending from Azores High to central and eastern Europe provide warm and dry weather conditions. Warm air advection will be particularly the strongest over the Baltic Sea where 850 hPa temperature will exceed 10C. MSLP high with pressure over 1030 hPa will extend from Slovakia to Ukraine and also limit convection. Most of the N Europe will be under influence of deep low that will trail through Norwegian Sea. On its rear side, mid-level cold air is expected to be advecting to N Scandinavia during the forecast period. Large horizontal temperature contrast that induces strong pressure gradient in this area, provides strong latitudinal air flow and significant vertical wind shear. Pressure area below 1020 hPa is forecast to cover most of the S and SE Europe. Jet streaks will be stretching from British Isles to Scandinavia, and along the coast of Algeria and Egipt.
Instability up to 400 J/kg that is resulting from strong mid-level cold air advection and lapse rates exceeding 8 C/km will occur in the zone of 850 hPa wind speed ~ 20-25 m/s. Convection that will occur in such environment can enhance surface wind speed gusts according to NWP models up to 25-30 m/s. Although free convective layer is forecast to be quite shallow (that is usual for thunderstorms occurring in this kind of air mass), the largest probability for lightning will fall on the coastal areas where orographic lifting over Scandinavian Mountains will overlap with favorable QG lift.
Weak wind flow in low and mid-levels together with low height of LFC, increased vertical temperature gradient (~ 7 C/km) and favorable QG lift within thermodynamic instability up to 800 J/kg create good conditions for waterspouts. Although the boundary layer's mixing ratio is forecast to exceed 6-7 g/kg, the lack of vertical wind shear will limit the occurrence of other severe weather phenomena of convective origin.
Dangerous overlap of 0-3km SRH exceeding 300 m2/s2, DLS ~ 20-25 m/s, and CAPE around 100-200 J/kg within mixing ratios over 7 g/kg create threat for supercell thunderstorms.Within them, large hail and severe wind gusts are forecast to be the main threat. Given marginal instability and cloud tops that will not exceed -20C, electrifization is not forecast to be significant. The best conditions for convection in this area are expected in the evening and nighttime hours when favorable QG-forcing will be present. Locally enhanced LLS cannot rule out risk for the mesocyclonic tornado occurrence, especially in the evening hours.


Latest news about local restaurants opening and closing.
After dazzling diners with flavorful ramen at Zen Asian BBQ when it launched two years ago, local restaurateur Mike Cardascia has branched out to a fresh city with another fusion cuisine.
Zen is still open in North Naples, but meet its Mexican cousin, ZaZa Kitchen, a Marco Island eatery promoted as a taqueria mixed with Latin fusion street food. ZaZa debuted Feb. 19 in the former space of Kirk's Coney Island, which closed in November after operating for more than three years in the Olde Marco Square retail strip on Bald Eagle Drive.
Just follow the aroma to ZaZa. The pork, chicken and brisket for its Mexican favorites are slow-cooked for 12 hours in a smoker behind the restaurant.
The fajitas added to ZaZa's lineup last week are already popular, but the top tacos are the smoked brisket and al pastor – pork marinated in achiote spices, guajillo peppers, onions and pineapple.
ZaZa's tacos ($2.89-$$3.79) are served authentically on soft corn tortillas with cilantro and onions. Other varieties include chicken tinga, carne asada, carnitas, shrimp and grilled or blackened fish.
Daily specials feature three tacos served with rice and beans for $9.95 at lunch and $12.95 for dinner. Seafood varieties are $10.95 for lunch and $14.95 for dinner.
Of course, ZaZa's menu has other popular Mexican dishes with a choice of meat. Burritos are served with a salad for $11.95 to $14.95. Enchiladas ($8.95-$11.95) and quesadillas ($9.95-$14.95) are served with Mexican rice and refried beans or ZaZa charro beans.
Tortas ($11.95-$14.95) include a choice of refried beans, charro beans or fries. Chicken or pulled pork tamales ($11.95) also are made fresh daily.
The menu also features the house specialty ZaZa Burger, an Angus beef patty dusted with ZaZa magic rub and served with grilled onions, guacamole spread, ZaZa sauce, bacon, a Mexican cheese blend and fried or rice and beans for $12.95. Appetizers ($7.95-$11.95) include nachos, blanco queso fundido, ceviche and Zater tots, fried potato and cheese fritters topped with queso, lettuce, tomatoes and Zaza sauce – sour cream with roasted garlic, cilantro and other spices.
Beverages include Mexican Coke and Sprite, Jarritos Mexican citrus soft drinks, wine, domestic and Mexican beer, and a few "mixed drinks:" ZaZarita on the rocks, sangria and Bloody Marys. During daily happy hours, 3 to 5 p.m., ZaZaritas, sangria and house wine are $4, imported beer $3.25 and domestic beer $3.
ZaZa's logo with a Day of the Dead skull wearing a sombrero may already look familiar, but Cardascia plans to multiply it even more. He has regional growth plans for ZaZa.
"Planning a location in Estero that will have both ZaZa and an Italian concept that will have pizza and fresh made pasta. Zio's," he said.
That's another zany Z word and another zesty restaurant concept. One zinger at a time.
ZaZa Kitchen, 1095 Bald Eagle Drive, is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 to 9 p.m. Sundays. For more information call 239-970-5205 or go to eatatzaza.com.
► La Bamba Brunch Bar & Patio launched in February for breakfast, lunch and dinner at Miromar Outlets in Estero.
Owners Mariano and Monica Rinaldi opened their latest restaurant adjacent to their longtime La Bamba Tequila Bar & Restaurant in the regional outlet mall's restaurant piazza. The lakeside space with a large patio most recently was home to Florida Kitchen and Waterside Seafood & Grill Co.
The new full-service restaurant serves a variety of brunch items such as omelets made to order, avocado toast, shrimp and grits, chicken and waffles, and French toast with blackberries and goat cheese. Lunch and dinner items include a roasted pork sandwich, balsamic chicken and goat cheese wrap, Mexican chorizo and garlic shrimp burger, and a Mediterranean medley salad, according to a news release.
The new brunch bar also features a coffee and espresso menu as well as specialty cocktails such as a salted caramel coffee martini, strawberry mint mojito, pineapple Moscow mule, and a bacon-infused bourbon Manhattan. Drink specials include $20 bottomless mimosas, sangria and bloody Marys.
La Bamba Brunch Bar & Patio, 10801 Corkscrew Road, suite 317, is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. For more information call 239-948-2684.
► El Gaucho Inca Bistro permanently closed March 4 in North Naples.
Owners Mariano Maldonado and Rocio Navarrete found it difficult to operate both their original longtime El Gaucho Inca restaurant in Fort Myers plus their bistro in Naples, especially since the couple lives in Fort Myers.
In fall 2016, the family-owned-and-operated South American restaurant replaced the former Fred's Diner in the corner of Uptown Center off Immokalee Road. A Lebanese restaurant soon will open to continue the dining succession at that location.
El Gaucho Inca will continue serving its Peruvian and Argentinean cuisine in Fort Myers at 4383 Colonial Blvd.
► Blue Collar Burgers permanently closed Feb. 16 in North Naples.
Originally opened in January 2017 as Deluca's Burgers and Fries, owner Chris DeLuca offered a cut-rate, barebones menu of mostly burgers and fries. DeLuca reports that his lease was not renewed in the industrial park area north of Pine Ridge Road.
Despite its short run and abrupt ending in a difficult location, DeLuca considers his little burger joint a big accomplishment.
DeLuca said he enjoyed the final product and all the happy customers and regulars who came in almost every day.
"So, I want to give a huge thank you to all who have supported us and dined with us. It means a lot and I will miss each and every one of you," he said.


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Patriot Crier
Elder Patriot
Kenneth Schortgen Jr
Romney Wordsworth
CORRECTIONS & RETRACTIONS
Obama Signs Law Revoking the First Amendment – Move to Protect Corrupt Washington Insiders?
ELDER PATRIOT – With the help of an overwhelming number of Republican lawmakers President Obama was able to continue his assault on our civil liberties by signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 into law last Friday while Americans were busy making their last minute Christmas preparations.
The vote in the Senate on December 8th was 85-13 where its sponsor was John McCain. Only two Republicans voted against the final version before it was sent to President Obama to sign. It had passed the House a week earlier by a vote of 375-34 with no more than 5 Republicans voting against it. Paul Ryan wasn't one of them.
Hidden in the new law – Section 1287 – are the funding and guidelines necessary to establish a Global Engagement Center. The wording is sufficiently vague enough for the GEC to become a Ministry of Truth.
Section 1287, (a) Establishment, (2) Purpose: The purpose of the Center shall be to lead, synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests.
Section 1287, (b) Functions, (2) Analyze relevant information, data, analysis, and analytics from United States Government agencies, United States allies and partner nations, think tanks, academic institutions, civil society groups, and other nongovernmental organizations.
Section 1287, (b) Functions, (5) Facilitate the use of a wide range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among Federal departments and agencies, seeking expertise from external sources, and implementing best practices.
Would it be a lie to conclude that Republican fidelity to our Constitutional protections is a myth? What say you Ted Cruz who voted in favor of the bill?
Anyone who thinks this is intended to defend against foreign propaganda is naïve. The language in the bill is sufficiently vague so as to allow the government, or perhaps corrupt government officials, to silence their critics.
Why else would 460 of the 535 members of Congress pass a law that directly contravenes the First Amendment if they weren't concerned about Donald Trump's declaration that he intends to Drain the Swamp? What do they have to fear that they would so brazenly violate their oath of office?
This also goes a long way towards explaining why the entirety of the mainstream establishment media has been weaponized against Trump.
The government has no defense against charges that this law is an end run around the First Amendment that explicitly forbids Congress from even contemplating such an action.
Amendment I
George Orwell correctly predicted the rise of an American Oligarchy in his book 1984. He noted that, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it." Orwell's observation is becoming more evident with each passing day.
And now the corrupt Washington cabal has passed a law that will make legitimate criminal charges against them "fake" and their accusers subject to censure and maybe criminal penalties.
OBAMA JUST CROSSED THE LINE – Commits a Series of SEDITIOUS ACTS to Undermine AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
ELDER PATRIOT – Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful
BREAKING: HILLARY'S TREASONOUS PLAN TO STEAL THE 2016 ELECTION JUST GOT EXPOSED!!
ELDER PATRIOT – With internal polls from both the Trump and Clinton presidential campaigns indicating Donald Trump is heading towards a landslide victory in November, there's simply no way to reconcile them with polls showing
Dissecting the Recent Fox News Poll – Part One Do Today's Americans Even Have a Clue About What Made America Great and Protected our Freedoms???
ELDER PATRIOT – Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence "[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." "Whereas true religion and
Proof: President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Leading Democrats Are Terrorists
terrorist /ˈtɛrərɪst/ noun 1. a. a person who employs terror or terrorism, esp as a political weapon b. (as modifier): terrorist tactics terrorism [ter–uh-riz-uh m] noun 1. the use of violence
Analytics Reveal Hispanics Resisting Both Political Parties Efforts to Turn Then Into The Next Racially Designated Entitlement Group
ELDER PATRIOT – The Democrats have owned Black voters in virtually every election since Lyndon Johnson lured far too many of them into becoming dependents of the federal government. The fact that Blacks have voted
This July Fourth Remember to Celebrate America's First War of Independence and Resolve to Reaffirm America's Independence Again In November
ELDER PATRIOT – In the years leading up to July 4, 1776 Americans had grown weary of paying for the privilege of remaining attached to Britain. The colonists viewed the relationship as too one-sided in
George Soros Funded Last Night's Massacre of the Dallas Police
ELDER PATRIOT – As if on cue from Hillary Clinton or President Obama, George Soros' Black Lives Matter army began killing Dallas police officers in a coordinated and well-planned attack last night. So far five
Breaking News: Clinton CIA Operative Behind Russian Hacking Lies
ELDER PATRIOT – Thanks to the diligence of investigative reporter Aaron Klein Hillary Clinton's ties to the CIA's former acting director Mike Morell has been exposed. Morell left the CIA suddenly to take a job
In the Cesspool That is Washington D.C. it Bought the Clintons Immunity and a Possible Eight More Years in the White House
Shortly after gaining control of the levers of government 900 FBI files went missing. The files eventually turned up in possession of then First Lady Hillary Clinton. The incident became known as Filegate. Those files
Shared Hatred: Why Hillary Clinton Tapped Tim Kaine as Her Vice President
ELDER PATRIOT – The mainstream media is heralding Senator Tim Kaine as a well-liked legislator who gets along well with others. The fact that Kaine has been given the lowest score (2%) of any senator
Congress Moves to Stifle Free Speech – Expands Government Control Over the Media
Congress is well aware of the potential for the abuse of power they bestow on unaccountable government agencies. In 1975 the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
UN Compares Trump to ISIS
ELDER PATRIOT – Jordanian Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein is the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights. Seriously, a man who has never won a popular election and who comes from a country
Thanks Obama. Thanks Hillary. Corruption and Treason Now Rule Washington
ELDER PATRIOT – The fundamental change that Barack Obama promised those who supported his election is close to complete. The election of Hillary Clinton will ensure that the relationship between the people and THIS government
HERE Is WHAT WILL HAPPEN If The DEEP STATE TAKES DOWN PRESIDENT TRUMP & It's NOT PRETTY … FOR THEM
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants." – Thomas Jefferson
ELDER PATRIOT – Corrupt politicians ignore Jefferson's directive to their own detriment. It's no longer political, it's personal.
Americans have had their eyes opened by the ascension of Donald Trump and no amount of leftwing money can put the Freedom Movement genie back in the bottle.
Conservative Senator Ted Cruz made that observation after reviewing the results of the 2016 elections and the expectations of the voters.
Cruz, who had the most high profile personality clash with Donald Trump during the Republican primary process nevertheless embraced Trump's America First agenda and said, "If we're given the White House and both houses of Congress and we don't deliver, I think there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets. And I think quite rightly."
Candidate Trump promised many things – border control, lower taxes, fairer trade relations, a balanced budget, healthcare that puts the people first not the government, safer communities, and – to the extent possible – an end to foreign wars. What, among those promises, should any Republican, nay any American, have a problem with?
After four months without a single legislative achievement, Congressional and Senatorial Republicans – notably John McCain, Paul Ryan and Lindsey Graham – have joined the Democrats in investigating President Trump absent a single shred of evidence that an underlying crime has been committed.
So, what gives?
Well, there was one additional promise that Trump made on his way to the White House that has some Republicans joining with Democrats and quaking in their boots, Trump's promise to "Drain the Swamp."
As we reported yesterday, "An F.B.I. agent with 'intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton case' told us that they uncovered evidence of such massive corruption that the agents involved realized that damned near the entire government could be brought down."
The criminal co-conspirators in both parties realized almost immediately that the new sheriff wasn't interested in joining them in the swamp so they launched, what can only be characterized as, a coup attempt.
Democrats are well schooled in such things probably because of their close alliance with Marxist regimes that can only gain power by seizing it through bloody civil wars. It should be noted that the Democratic Party has already done this once before.
One Hundred and Fifty-Seven years ago the Democrats waged a war against the First Republican President Abraham Lincoln for giving Blacks their freedom. That war came at a high price, as many as 700,000 Americans died fighting for what they believe in. To put that in perspective, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
Today, Americans are still prepared to fight and die to protect their children's God-given freedoms. Despite what you are reading and hearing in the mainstream media, they aren't the leftwing-funded rioters, the pussy hat-wearing feminists, or the cuck bois that cant handle a micro aggression. No, the Americans that back Donald Trump are well armed.
Donald Trump's presidency will move forward politically lest the sixty million patriots who voted for him, that are comprised of the large majority of military voters, police, and NRA members, move it forward by force.
These patriots are armed, trained, prepared, and have proven their discipline. They have grown disgusted by the corruption in Washington and will do whatever is necessary to make sure Trump's Freedom Agenda moves forward and under the direction of Donald Trump himself.
No amount of fake news based on unsubstantiated charges by unnamed sources is going to change that. The battle lines have been drawn and no amount of finger pointing is going to convince these patriots to let anyone overturn the election results.
So why are establishment politicians courting a bloodbath on the streets of America that will also threaten them personally when they could be part of Making America Great Again? It's because they have been caught red-handed and up to their eyeballs in a worldwide criminal conspiracy that has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with defrauding the American taxpayers.
And, now that they've been caught robbing the world's largest bank – the U.S. treasury – they have chosen to go out in a blaze of glory rather than try to defend the indefensible at trial.
Washington's criminal elites have chosen to go to war to unseat our duly elected president. It's time to make our voices heard before this turns very ugly. Buckle your chin strap, America is counting on you.
EDITORS NOTE: THIS IS NOT A CALL TO ARMS BUT RATHER AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE DEEP STATES OVERTURNS A DUELY ELECTED PRESIDENT.
HERE IS A LIST OF EVERY SINGLE TIME OBAMA COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE THAT DEMS & MEDIA COVERED UP
"Impeach!" It's been more than eight years since Democrats uttered that word – long enough for anyone to wonder if it was still in their vocabulary, considering the deafening silence through the dozens of serious scandals during President Obama's administration – but now that President Trump is the man in the White House, it's back with a vengeance.
Democrats everywhere are wildly slinging the "I" word, hoping to nail Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors after the New York Times claimed a memo written by former FBI Director James Comey said the president urged him to end the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Some members of Congress are getting in on the action. They include Reps. Maxine Water, D-Calif., and Al Green, D-Texas. Even a Republican, Rep. Justin Amash, claimed Wednesday there are grounds to impeach President Trump. House Oversign Committee Chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked for the alleged Comey memo and other documents. Chaffetz tweeted that he is prepared to subpoena the information. And Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., invoked "Watergate."
Now the Democratic Party is reportedly poll testing impeachment as a 2018 election issue. More than 1 million people signed a petition calling on Congress to impeach Trump.
Wasting no time Wednesday, the mainstream media sprang into action, enthusiastically echoing the left's impeachment calls. MSNBC launched a Watergate ad implying Trump is America's new Richard Nixon.
"Watergate. We know its name because there were reporters who never stopped asking questions," says MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who hinted that Trump is next on the impeachment chopping block. "Now, who knows where the questions will take us. But I know this: I'm not going to stop asking them."
Meanwhile, some overzealous members of the left plastered fliers around Washington, D.C., demanding all White House staffers resign Wednesday.
The posters read: "If you work for this White House you are complicit in hate-mongering, lies, corrupt taking of Americans' tax money via self-dealing and emoluments, and quite possibly federal crimes and treason. Also, any wars will be on your soul. … Resign now."
But constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who voted for President Obama, warned "impeachment" enthusiasts not to get ahead of themselves with President Trump. Why?
At this time, there's no evidence Trump actually committed a crime.
"The criminal code demands more than what Comey reportedly describes in his memo," Turley wrote in a May 17 opinion piece posted at the Hill. Turley explained:
For the first time, the Comey memo pushes the litany of controversies surrounding Trump into the scope of the United States criminal code.
However, if this is food for obstruction of justice, it is still an awfully thin soup. Some commentators seem to be alleging criminal conduct in office or calling for impeachment before Trump completed the words of his inaugural oath of office. Not surprising, within minutes of the New York Times report, the response was a chorus of breathless "gotcha" announcements. But this memo is neither the Pentagon Papers nor the Watergate tapes. Indeed, it raises as many questions for Comey as it does Trump in terms of the alleged underlying conduct.
A good place to start would be with the federal law, specifically 18 U.S.C. 1503. The criminal code demands more than what Comey reportedly describes in his memo. There are dozens of different variations of obstruction charges ranging from threatening witnesses to influencing jurors. None would fit this case. That leaves the omnibus provision on attempts to interfere with the "due administration of justice."
However, that still leaves the need to show that the effort was to influence "corruptly" when Trump could say that he did little but express concern for a longtime associate. The term "corruptly" is actually defined differently under the various obstruction provisions, but it often involves a showing that someone acted "with the intent to secure an unlawful benefit for oneself or another." Encouraging leniency or advocating for an associate is improper but not necessarily seeking an unlawful benefit for him.
. Obama's Iran nuke deal
Obama knew about Hillary's private email server
Obama IRS targets conservatives
Obama's DOJ spies on AP reporters
Obamacare & Obama's false promises
Illegal-alien amnesty by executive order
Benghazi-gate
Operation Fast & Furious
5 Taliban leaders for Bergdahl
Extortion 17
'Recess ' appointments – when Senate was in session
Appointment of 'czars' without Senate approval
Suing Arizona for enforcing federal law
Refusal to defend Defense of Marriage Act
Illegally conducting war against Libya
NSA: Spying on Americans
Muslim Brotherhood ties
Miriam Carey
Solyndra and the lost $535 million
Cap & Trade: When in doubt, bypass Congress
Refusal to prosecute New Black Panthers
Obama's U.S. citizen 'hit list'
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African Journey: A Search for the Roots is a blues album by an American historian Samuel Charters and an attempt to trace the roots and influences of American blues from the 1920s and 1930s back to the tribal music of West Africa. He draws connections and similarities through song content and instrument type and usage. In 1974 he traveled the length of the crescent from Senegal to Nigeria. He then returned to travel up the Gambia River to a slave pen at Jang Jang Bure. His travel path emulated the paths of slave traders. All the musical performances were recorded by means of a tape recorder. The album was released as a double vinyl set. Volume One contains songs performed by historians as well as celebratory songs from The Gambia, Senegal, and Mali. Volume Two consists of funeral processions, dances, and songs from Ghana, Togo and The Gambia.

Album Information: An Introduction and Notes to the Songs

The back cover of the album entitled: An Introduction and Notes to the Songs explains why he chose the area of West Africa for his research and how he drew connections between West African music and the American delta blues.

He explains that up the point the project was undertaken records of African slave heritage were insufficient and provided little evidence as to where and individual slave or family was from. This coupled with the fact that the slaves themselves came from cultures without written languages and without a clear idea of larger geographic areas, made it almost impossible to trace individual slave's roots. He then explains that the current research of his time has allowed historians to understand which tribes and peoples came from what areas and what music, language, and culture they brought. With this research he was able to draw the initial connection between the blues and traditional African music.

He then begins to distinguish between the first slaves arriving from Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea, and the later slaves coming from Ghana, Nigeria, and the Cameroons. The first group had established a distinctive Afro-American culture as they came to the colonies in groups and built the plantations. The second group was dispersed throughout the already formed plantations and they adapted to the established culture they found in America. From this he draws the conclusion that Afro-American music could be traced back to the area between the Senegal River and southern Guinea.

Then he discusses the distribution of individual tribes in the colonies. Because the Europeans generally didn't actually capture the slaves, who was shipped to the colonies was in the hands of the African rulers. At the time of the slave trades, West Africa was in constant internal struggle so it was the losers of the wars that were enslaved. Thus, tribes of fierce warriors were hardly ever found in America. Two tribes that were often found in slave colonies were the Wollofs and the Mandingoes.

The end of the introduction draws the connection between these tribes and the blues of America. These areas contained music with stringed instruments and there was also a strong tradition of the singer/historian, or griot,  whose role in the society closely paralleled that of the bluesman.

Songs

Volume One

Side One
Track 1: Kelefa Ba

Artists: Jali Nyama Suso

Instruments: Kora, vocals

Notes: Jali Nyama Suso played the Kora while a performer improvised his own texts around basic song materials.

Track 2: Alfa Yaya

Artists: Abdoulie Samba

Instruments: Xalam, vocals

Notes: Alfa Yaya is a praise song to a king of the Wollof.

Track 3: Jola Dance

Artists: Individuals not recorded. The dance was performed by many members of the tribe.

Instruments: Drums, Hand and Wooden Clappers, vocals

Notes: Tied directly to the Juba Dance of the colonies.

Track 4: Chedo

Artists: Jali Nyama Suso

Instruments: Kora, vocals

Notes: Chedo is the Fula word for Mandingo and this song describes the war between the Fula and Mandingo.

Side Two
Track 1: Bowdi

Artists: Alhaji Amara Sahone

Instruments: Konting, vocals

Notes: The konting is a larger xalam.

Track 2: Almami Samari Touray

Artists: Alhaji Fabala Kanuteh

Instruments: Balafon, vocals

Notes: Almami Samari Touray was a leader of Guinea during wartimes in the 19th Century.

Volume Two

Side Three
Track 1: Tutu Jara

Artists: Dela Kanuteh, Mawdo Suso, Karunka Suso

Instruments: Balafon, kora, vocals

Notes: The song chronicles a woman who wants to have a child but has to ask a snake for help.

Track 2: Yaha Yaha

Artist: Alhaji Sait Camara

Instruments: Xalam, vocals

Notes: Yaha Yaha is a praise for the President of Gambia.

Side Four
Track 1: Selati Nalim Koye

Artists: Falie Kuyateh

Instruments: Kora, vocals

Notes:  Selati Nalim Koye is about a great warrior in Mandingo history.

Track 2: Ewe Drumming

Artists: Collective tribe.

Instruments: Drums, vocals

Notes: The recording is only a short period taken from a day-long drumming ceremony.

References

 African Journey: A Search for the Roots of the Blues: Album format, Samuel Charters, Vanguard Records, 1975
 The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, Samuel Charters, Da Capo Press, 1981

1975 compilation albums
Blues compilation albums
Folk compilation albums
albums produced by Samuel Charters

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On December 25, 2015, the 4th Annual University Venture Grand Prix (UVGP 2015) was held at Tokyo University's FUKUTAKE Learning Theatre. Hosted by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), among the 79 student groups who applied, nine teams were chosen as finalists to pitch to a panel of judges comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, professors, and industry leaders.
Two teams, Luciole.Inc and MoonGlass, received the TOMODACHI Social Entrepreneurship Award which is awarded to undergraduate and graduate students with the most innovative and creative business plans. These student entrepreneurs will travel to Silicon Valley in March 2016 to represent Japan and to pitch their ideas to American venture capitalists and meet with fellow student entrepreneurs and leaders in the industry. They will also receive intense training on pitching ideas and improving business plans.
Educational model aimed at fostering subjective thinking by combining IT and Manufacturing in the classroom.
Program focuses on young students with undergraduate female IT students as teachers.
Production of eyewear "MoonGlass" that utilizes ISO sensor technology to transform night into daylight.
Created to be a temporary solution for night blindness.


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Pound defies Brexit fears, hitting January highs against dollar
By Gaurav Sharma
June 21, 2016 16:09 BST
The pound sterling has hit highs last seen in January during intraday trading on Tuesday (21 June), thereby extending the previous session's gains.
At one point, the pound was changing hands against the US dollar at $1.472, the highest since 4 January, which was the first foreign exchange trading day for the year. However, a correction followed in late afternoon trading, with the British currency fetching $1.4689 down 0.06% on the session at 3:38pm BST . The pound also surged against the euro exchanging at €1.3049, up 0.46%
Brexit would hit UK with economic 'earthquake', says Sir John Gieve
UK government borrowing sees marginal decline in May
Brexit may cause biggest sterling crisis since 'Black Wednesday' - George Soros
Opinion polls for the UK's EU referendum still point to a close verdict, but have of late started suggesting that public momentum was with the 'Remain' rather than the 'Vote Leave' campaign.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Betfair told IBTimes UK that the betting market was now leaning in favour of a remain vote with a 78% chance of that happening. It represents a complete turnaround from Friday when the bookmaker noted a 65% chance of a Brexit vote.
Improved public borrowing figures, published by the Office for National Statistics, earlier in the session also supported the pound. Excluding Treasury support for state-owned banks, public borrowing for May came in at £9.7bn ($14.3bn, €12.6bn), down £0.4bn from last year, and lowest on record for the month since May 2007, the statistics body noted.
Traders say a vote in favour of staying in the EU could see the pound rally as high as $1.53-$1.56 and €1.31 and €1.34 versus the dollar and euro respectively.
Kit Juckes, head of foreign exchange at Societe Generale, said there will be more ebbing and flowing in polls and sentiment but for now, pound sterling shorts are still being squeezed.
"The rest of the markets are being led by the UK referendum mood. So, Asian equities are up again and the only two currencies that are weaker against the dollar are the yen [again] and the Rupee [also for a second day]."
Jane Foley, senior foreign exchange analyst at Rabobank, cautioned against buying too much into the recent rally.
"The pound is massively vulnerable if there is a vote to leave. Unless there is an emphatic vote to remain in the EU, a lot of uncertainty will persist, and that could mean that the pound's rally could fizzle out quite soon."
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Brendan right before his 6th bday.
I found myself with a brand new baby boy and stitches, lots of stitches. Giving birth to this beautiful boy by cesarean (after 12 drug-free hours of labor) taught me that I can not do it on my own and I began to learn the true value of vulnerability, authenticity, and the love and support of community. Back then, I co-directed Mandala Yoga Community and my life was devoted to cultivating the practice of yoga and the joy of community daily. I worked so hard, relying on and pushing my body to do so much. As I lay in bed, considering how I might get myself up and then to the bathroom, let alone feed this guy, it dawned on me - I needed help. I was raised to believe that I (on my own) could do anything. This simple isn't true. I had to learn how to ask for help.
With the news that Brendan had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - a "terminal disease" causing degenerative muscle weakness, I knew that I would need to learn a whole new way of asking for support and supporting.
The costs (financial, emotional, physical, spiritual) associated with this life experience will ask more of me than I can imagine.
I pray that I will learn how to be strong, kind, clear, loving, and generous in ways that I have not yet know and share this with my son, my family, and everyone we have the privilege of being in relationship with. I know that every tear is an offering.
And yet, who knows what magic is in store.
All donations will go directly into a fund for Brendan that will help with so many things, from medical expenses to an adapted home, there really are so many things.
We are grateful for your love, care, and support beyond measure. Deeply.


Recommender systems aim at providing suggestions of interest for end-users. Two main types of approach underlie existing recommender systems: content-based methods and collaborative filtering. In this paper, encouraged by good results obtained in classification by analogical proportion-based techniques, we investigate the possibility of using analogy as the main underlying principle for implementing a prediction algorithm of the collaborative filtering type. The quality of a recommender system can be estimated along diverse dimensions. The accuracy to predict user's rating for unseen items is clearly an important matter. Still other dimensions like coverage and surprise are also of great interest. In this paper, we describe our implementation and we compare the proposed approach with well-known recommender systems.


Flats East Bank Rapid Station is a station on the RTA Waterfront Line portion of the Blue and Green Lines in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The station is located along West 10th Street just southeast of its intersection with Main Avenue in The Flats district.
The station opened on July 10, 1996, when light rail service was extended 2.2 miles from Tower City through The Flats and along the lakefront. This extension was designated the Waterfront Line, although it is actually an extension of the Blue and Green Lines, as trains leaving this station toward Tower City continue along the Blue or Green Line routes to Shaker Heights.


Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Fri 14 Oct.
Bold and bubbly, with a huge dose of camped-up corn, Hairspray is an evening of in-your-face dance-pop in supersized proportions. The story of Tracy Turnblad, a "pleasantly plump' sixties teen who loves to dance, becomes an unlikely 'star' on a local TV dance show and uses her newfound celebrity to demand the show allow black kids to dance alongside their white pals. The story is brought to life in a huge way with over 600 of Adelaide's brightest young dancing talents lending their collective mass to an already over-the-top production.
Presented by Brisbane's Harvest Rain Theatre Company, this show hosts some big names in Australian entertainment – Simon Burke, Tim Campbell and Christine Anu, all of whom lend considerable 'weight' to their roles. Lauren McKenna is amply qualified for the role of the plus-sized Tracy, able to sing and dance up a storm yet also harnesses the awkwardness of youth that makes the character so endearing to Hairspray fans.
As Tracy's mother, the agoraphobic Edna Turnblad, Burke continues the tradition of the role being played by a man. He injects just enough attempts at femininity to ensure the character is both comical and loveable at the same time. Teaming with multi-award winning cabaret and musical theatre performer Wayne Scott Kermond as the delightfully optimistic Wilbur Turnblad provided a real highlight in Act Two where both performers hammed it up for the audience. Intimacy is nigh impossible in an arena spectacular however Edna and Wilbur's duet (You're) Timeless To Me came close, their antics managing to bridge that great audience divide with a mix of physical gags and local references that struck just the right chord.
As rhyming R&B queen Motormouth Maybelle, Anu is loud and proud, while Tim Campbell literally sparkles as Corny Collins, the dance show 'host with the most'. Both artists clearly understood their roles and delivered strong performances. In the role of villainous TV producer Velma von Tussle, Ruby Clark is splendidly nasty, her exaggerated spitefulness almost too much at times. Mean girl daughter Amber von Tussle was well played by Stacey De Waard, and Dan Venz was suitably earnest as teen heartthrob and Amber/Tracy love interest, Link Larkin. In other supporting roles Barry Conrad and Vidya Makan made the most of their roles as Motormouth Maybelle's children, Seaweed and Little Inez, growing up as black teens in white 1960s Baltimore. Special mention goes to Emily Monsma who managed to dominate her every scene as the geeky, repressed but entirely loveable best friend, Penny Pingleton.
Staging was a huge runway-like platform structure of varied heights and worked reasonably well, the design allowing for enough floor space to accommodate those aforementioned multitudes. Lighting was used effectively, particularly in the use of spots to draw the eye back to the actor of the moment – there is so much going on throughout this production, it's easy to get lost among the action. The Adelaide production is missing the super large multi projection screens of the interstate performances – the narrow strip of screen across the rear of the Entertainment Centre stage didn't really provide the same 'spectacular' environment the production promised. Sound was an issue throughout the night as well – both in terms of voice levels and misbehaving mikes. Many times I found myself waiting for something more to happen, the sparks seeming to fizzle out before hitting any great heights for me.
In short, although Hairspray is a fast and frenzied mix of dance, sixties pop and R&B sound delivered in a cute cartoonish setting, it absolutely relied on the strength of numbers alone, to make it 'spectacular'.
Hairspray – The Big Fat Musical Spectacular continues at Adelaide Entertainment Centre at 2pm & 7.30pm until Sat 15 Oct.
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Rambert School dates from 1919 when its founder, Marie Rambert, first began teaching in London and it is now recognised as one of the world's finest centres of professional dance education.
Uniquely in the UK, the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance treats these two dance genres equally. Providing an intensive dance training and a stimulating educational environment, Rambert enables talented students to fulfil their potential as expressive performers, creative artists and as human beings. Marie Rambert famously proclaimed that her School should not be a 'sausage factory', and this sentiment still holds true. Individuality continues to be highly valued and each student is nurtured and supported throughout their transition from dance student to professional, and often beyond.
Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance joined the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama in 2005. The School offers a Foundation Degree and a BA (Hons) in Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
The School welcomes applications from disabled people and offers places solely on the basis of potential and suitability for a career in any of the areas taught.
Some of the School premises are not accessible for wheelchair users. If you would like to discuss your access needs before applying, please contact Judy Bowden, Head of Admissions, Registry & Student Support on info@rambertschool.org.uk or call +44 (0) 208 892 9960.
I feel that Rambert School instilled a certain mentality in me as an artist. That to be a successful dancer, you must go beyond what you may think is good enough. You have to be an intelligent dancer, someone with diligence, determination, persistence and a certain understanding of who you are as an artist or who you would like to be.


Complete renovation of a lawn, paving, or planting trees require removal of a thin upper layer, so the old turf.
This is to prevent the old turf remainders to affect the new arrangement and to provide a cleared and leveled base for later work. We do not remove any soil, which can stay, so the level ground lowered.


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The NRA Meets Its Potent New Foe: Moms
Watch as parents and survivors brandish a new weapon: the gun lobby's own words.
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For years, advocates of stricter gun laws have rallied at the barricades of the National Rifle Association's annual meeting. But this year, as the gun lobby convenes in Indianapolis, there's a new posse in town. They're mothers, they're survivors of gun violence, and some of them are both. And they're dead set on disarming the NRA of its outsize political power.
They operate as Everytown for Gun Safety, a new organization combining the grassroots group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, launched after the Sandy Hook massacre, and Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns. At a press conference in a packed downtown hotel conference room on Friday, the group unveiled a forceful new report and political ad.
"We are in Indianapolis to send the NRA leadership a message," said Shannon Watts, the 43-year-old mother of five who founded Moms Demand Action. Americans can no longer abide by "a Washington lobby run by extremists," she said.
"Not Your Grandparents' NRA," a heavily annotated 21-page report, makes the case that there's a schism within the nation's biggest firearms group. "Today's NRA has remained true to its roots in some important ways," it begins. "The organization's gun safety and marksmanship programs remain useful contributions to the shooting sports and to public safety. And it is largely because of these nationwide programs that the organization is well known, and relatively well liked, in much of the country. This is the NRA most American gun owners know and trust."
"It was painful for me, but it's been even more difficult for my family," said shooting survivor Antonius Wriadjaja Everytown for Gun Safety
Then the report presents a stockpile of evidence showing how the NRA's leadership "puts Americans at risk" by fighting for the interests of gun manufacturing companies under the guise of defending citizens' constitutional freedoms. The Everytown report documents how the NRA has made it easier for felons to get guns, has fought local gun laws, and even backed an Indiana measure that would have expanded Stand Your Ground to include using lethal force against uniformed police officers. Everytown also calls out the NRA for blocking doctors from discussing safe gun ownership with their patients, as well as trying to keep military commanders from asking soldiers at risk of suicide about their personal firearms.
The new political ad, which airs in Indianapolis and Washington, DC, through the weekend, uses the pro-gun advocates' own words to make the case against them. "The presence of a firearm makes us all safer," intones 30-year-old Antonius Wiriadjaja, reciting the words of NRA figurehead Wayne LaPierre as he pulls up his T-shirt to reveal multiple scars. Wiriadjaja, whom I interviewed in Indianapolis, was shot in the chest in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on July 5, 2013. The intended target was a young pregnant woman who was being hunted by her domestic partner; Wiriadjaja was a bystander caught in crossfire. The woman was shot in the leg and miscarried.* Others easily could have been hit, Wiriadjaja said: The shooting occurred in the middle of the afternoon, with children nearby. "There were two little girls and their mother and an elderly man very close to me when it happened." (The suspected shooter is in custody.)
Wiriadjaja maintains a blog where he details his recovery process with photos. "It was painful for me, but it's been even more difficult for my family and friends to watch me go through it," he told me. "They're hurting too. I wanted them to understand how I'm healing."
"I'm a supporter of the Second Amendment, I'm a gun owner, and I'm paralyzed as the result of random gun violence."
Getting survivors to tell their stories may be one of Everytown's most formidable weapons. "I'm a supporter of the Second Amendment, I'm a gun owner, and I'm paralyzed as the result of random gun violence," Jennifer Longdon said. Her then-fiancé, who was armed at the time, was also gravely injured when someone in another car riddled their car with bullets in 2004. "He was a good guy with a gun," she said, but it was no help.
Indiana state Rep. Ed Delaney spoke of the legions of responsible gun owners in his state. And he denounced the NRA leadership for using the premise that gun rights are under attack to get legislators to ease restrictions on guns. Just last month, lawmakers here passed a controversial bill allowing guns in school parking lots. "There is no threat to gun ownership in Indiana," Delaney said, anger rising in his voice.
A few blocks from the Everytown press conference, the NRA was raising the curtain on "spectacular displays" of weaponry from "every major firearm company in the country," banquets for its million-dollar corporate donors, and red-meat speeches from the likes of Sarah Palin, Oliver North, and Franklin Graham (who blamed Sandy Hook on godlessness).
There are plenty of responsible gun owners among the estimated 70,000 people enjoying the entertainment and firearms on display in Indianapolis. Polls show that the majority of gun owners also believe in universal background checks for buyers—a policy the NRA leadership continues to vigorously oppose.
Indeed, some striking data from the Pew Research Center makes clear that the NRA leadership is glaringly at odds with the views of most of its members. (The NRA, of course, has its own data suggesting the exact opposite.) According to Pew's polling from last year, no less than three-quarters of Americans who live in a household where they or someone else is an NRA member favor regulating private gun sales and sales at gun shows with background checks. A third of people from NRA households support a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And 28 percent of gun owners believe that the NRA exerts too much influence over the debate about gun laws—as do 44 percent of all women.
If the well-financed and growing Everytown succeeds, those numbers may well rise and become even more conspicuous by the next time the NRA convenes for its annual bash.
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that the woman was not injured.
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2013 Day of Remembrance events
February 7, 2013 by Martha Hayakawa, Nichi Bei Weekly Leave a Comment
A DAY WELL REMEMBERED — President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 on Aug. 10, 1988 in Washington, D.C. courtesy of Densho, Kinoshita Family Collection
SUNDAY, FEB. 10
In memory of the Nikkei who were detained in Hawai'i during World War II, the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i will celebrate its Day of Remembrance at 1 p.m. at its Manoa Grand Ballroom, 2454 South Beretania St., Honolulu. The event will explore the lessons of the wartime incarceration of persons of Japanese descent from the perspective of an educator, civil rights advocate, legislator and high school student. The classroom adaptation of documentary, "The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i," will premiere, and a candle lighting ceremony honoring the memory of Hawai'i's former inmates will close the formal program. Admission is free and open to the public. Info: www.jcch.com, (808) 945-7633.
TUESDAY, FEB. 12
As part of the Day of Remembrance celebrations and as a show of support for a new resolution against indefinite detention, which is being introduced to the S.F. Board of Supervisors during the same day, a press conference and rally will be held on the front steps of S.F. City Hall, at Van Ness Ave. (between McAllister and Grove) at 1 p.m. Speakers will include David Chiu, president of the S.F. Board of Supervisors; and Karen Korematsu, co-founder of the Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education; Joe Nicholson, of the San Francisco 99% Coalition. Nadia Kayyali, of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, will serve as the emcee. Info: nadia@bordc.org, http://bit.ly/10Glgbt.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16
The Sonoma County chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League will present its Day of Remembrance workshop, "The Parallels Between Pearl Harbor and 9/11: Lessons from History" at The Memorial Hall, Enmanji Buddhist Temple, 1200 Gravenstein Highway, South, Sebastopol, Calif. at 1 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Imam Ali Siddiqui, executive director of Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies and Understanding. Donations will be accepted at the door. Info: sonomacojacl@yahoo.com.
The Livingston-Merced Japanese American Citizens League will host its annual Day of Remembrance banquet at the Merced County Fairgrounds, Pavilion Building, 900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Merced, Calif. This year's theme is "Baseball in the Camps." Samuel Regalado, sports historian and professor at California State University, Stanislaus, will be the keynote speaker. Dinner will begin at 5 p.m. The cost is $45 per person. Info: janetf127@gmail.com.
The Northern California Time of Remembrance committee (Florin, Lodi, Placer County and Sacramento chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League) will hold a screening of "Honor and Sacrifice: Nisei Patriots in the MIS." The film chronicles Roy Matsumoto and his service in the Military Intelligence Service as a member of the famed "Merrill's Marauders." Matsumoto's parents were living in Hiroshima when that city was destroyed by the atomic bomb. The Nikkei was charged with interrogating family members who served in the Japanese Army during the American occupation following the war. A highly decorated Nisei soldier, Matsumoto has been honored in both the Army Ranger and MIS halls of fame. Matsumoto will attend the event with his wife and daughter following the premiere showing and reception. The screening will begin at 1 p.m. at the Secretary of State's Auditorium, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, Calif. Donations will be accepted at the door: $20 adults, $15 students. Info: (916) 427-2841, www.nctor.org.
The Japanese American National Museum will host the 2013 Community Day of Remembrance program from 2 to 4 p.m. at 100 North Central Ave., in LA's Little Tokyo. The event's theme is "The 25th Anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Our Struggle, Our Perseverance, Our Commitment." It will highlight the various efforts, grassroots and legislative, that ultimately led to the signing of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act with footage from the Los Angeles Commission Hearings and voices from prominent redress figures and experts. In addition, there will also be a special tribute to late Sen. Daniel Inouye. Stephanie Nitahara, regional director of the Japanese American Citizens League Pacific Southwest District, and Soji Kashiwagi, executive producer of the Grateful Crane Ensemble, will serve as emcees. Bruce Embrey, of the Manzanar Committee, will moderate a panel discussion. A reception at the museum will follow the program. Info: JACL-PSW, (213) 626-4471.
The Bay Area Day of Remembrance, "Civil Liberties Act of 1988: Reassessing Redress … 25 Years Later" will take place at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema, 1881 Post St., in S.F.'s Japantown, from 2 to 4 p.m. This year's event is dedicated to the memory of Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawai'i. Frank Wu, chancellor and dean of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, will give the keynote speech, and Rep. Mark Takano, the first openly gay congressmember of color, will also speak. Rev. Michael Yoshii of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church will receive the Dr. Clifford I. Uyeda Peace and Humanitarian Award. Jana Katsuyama will serve as the emcee of the event. A reception will follow the ceremony at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter St. in S.F.'s Japantown. Admission is free. Info and reservations: (415) 921-5007.
The 33rd annual San Jose Day of Remembrance will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, 640 North Fifth St. in San Jose's Japantown. This year's program is entitled "The Changing Face of America." Simran Kaur, the advocacy director of the Sikh Coalition, Molly Kitajima, a Japanese Canadian who was incarcerated by the Canadian government during World War II, Rep. Mike Honda and Sara Jaka, from the South Bay Islamic Association, will speak. The program includes a performance by San Jose Taiko and a candle-lighting ceremony and remembrance, as well as a traditional candlelight procession through San Jose's Japantown. The event is free and open to the public. Info: http://www.sjnoc.org, info@sjnoc.org.
The Central California District Council Japanese American Citizens League's annual Day of Remembrance luncheon will feature local artist Nikiko Masumoto performing her one-woman show, "What We Could Carry," beginning at 1 p.m. at Pardini's at 2257, West Shaw Ave., Fresno, Calif. The event will also include a silent auction, raffle and the installation of officers. Registration starts at noon. Tickets are $35. Info: (559) 355-7217, r_mchung@yahoo.com.
The Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee and Seattle University will host the Day of Remembrance Taiko Festival 2013 at Seattle University's Pigott Atrium, 901 12th Ave., Seattle. Doors will open to the Pigott Atrium at noon. The Pigott Atrium will feature several exhibits that touch on the Japanese American Incarceration experience. Tickets range from $10 to $20. Info: http://calendar.thenewstribune.com/seattle_wa/events/show/298461087-day-of-remembrance-2013-taiko-festival#storylink=cpy.
The Portland chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League will celebrate its Day of Remembrance program at Portland State University at 2 p.m. at Hoffmann Hall, 1833 SW 11th Ave., Portland, Ore. The program will include a panel discussion of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and other legal challenges to the forced removal from the West Coast, the role of the National Japanese American Citizens League and Portland JACL in the redress effort, and current threats to civil liberties contained in the National Defense Authorization Act. The keynote speaker will be Floyd Mori, JACL national executive director emeritus.
The 2013 Chicago Day of Remembrance will focus on the Kooskia Internment Camp, which was located in a remote area of north central Idaho. Dr. Priscilla Wegars, author of "Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp," will lecture on the little known story of the camp and the Issei men who labored there from 1943 to 1945. Copies of "Imprisoned in Paradise" will be available for purchase at the event, and a book signing will follow the presentation. The program starts at 2 p.m. at the Chicago History Museum is located at 1601 N. Clark St., Chicago. The event is free and open to the public. Info: Karen Kanemoto (773) 275-0097 x 222.
MONDAY, FEB. 18
The Nichi Bei Foundation will present "Films of Remembrance," in conjunction with the Bay Area Day of Remembrance, at Nihonmachi Little Friends, 1830 Sutter St., in S.F.'s Japantown. The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. and feature a series of films about wartime incarceration followed by discussions. Filmmakers Sharon Yamato and Ken Kokka to attend. Schedule: 1:30 p.m. — "Jimmy Murakami: Non-Alien" followed by "The Tule Lake Documentary"; 3 p.m. — "Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story"; 4 p.m. — "A Flicker in Eternity"; 4:40 p.m.: "Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted"; 5:30 p.m. — A Divided Community: Three Personal Stories of Resistance" followed by "The JACL Apologizes." Free admission, limited seating. Co-sponsored by the Bay Area Day of Remembrance Consortium and National Japanese American Historical Society. Donations welcome. Info: www.dayofremembrance.org, www.nichibei.org.
The Monterey Peninsula chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League will host the five-chapter (Gilroy, Salinas Valley, San Benito County and Watsonville-Santa Cruz) observance of the Day of Remembrance at the site of the Salinas Assembly Center, where Nikkei were incarcerated during World War II while waiting to be sent to permanent facilities. The program will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Salinas Community Center, Santa Lucia Room, 940 North Main St., Salinas, Calif. This year's event will celebrate the 25th anniversary of redress and the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which acknowledged that the government violated the United States Constitution, in stripping Nikkei of their civil rights during World War II. The program will include the unveiling of "Twice Heroes," the photographic essay and interviews with author Tom Graves. Graves will introduce his book and talk about the motivation to produce the book and the significance of preserving this memory. The program is free and open to the public.
New York City will hold its Day of Remembrance from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Japanese United Church, 255 7th Ave., NYC. This year's theme, "Healing the Legacy of No-No: Tule Lake Pilgrimage," will focus on the legacy of those who were incarcerated at Tule Lake Segregation Center. The program will include mixed media, panelists and intergenerational discussion groups modeled after the Tule Lake Pilgrimage. The program will also pay tribute to the lives of Dr. Setsuko Nishi and Jimmy Mirikitani and others who have recently passed. The program will conclude with the traditional candle lighting ceremony and a community potluck. Donations will be accepted.
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Tired of debt? Live off the credit grid
By Claes Bell Claes Bell's Twitter profile
Sep. 22, 2010 /
Either out of anxiety or necessity, Americans are reducing their reliance on credit. Use of revolving credit such as credit cards and home equity lines of credit has been in decline since the financial crisis hit in 2008, falling 13 percent in the 4th quarter of 2009 alone, according to Federal Reserve consumer credit data.
Furthermore, only 56 percent of consumers used credit cards at all in 2009, compared to 87 percent in 2007, according to a recent study by the research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.
While many are cutting back on debt but still using credit for their day-to-day finances, some consumers are taking their aversion to debt to another level, dedicating all their financial energy to withdrawing from the credit grid entirely.
Elissa Burton, a financial planner with Francis Financial in New York, says that she has clients who feel uncomfortable carrying any kind of debt, even for big-ticket purchases like homes.
"Some of our clients just hate debt. They can't sleep at night, knowing that they don't own their home outright," says Burton. "Those are the type of people that we recommend either paying cash for their home or paying it off as quickly as possible. It's not a financial decision that makes sense when you crunch the numbers, but for some people it is right."
One woman living off the credit grid
J. Mohammad, a Tennessee-based accountant, decided in 2001 that she'd had enough of the constant stress she felt over $11,000 in credit card debt, her mortgage and a host of other bills. Inspired by Dave Ramsey's radio show on life, money and debt, she decided to pull out all the stops to reach her goal of "financial peace."
To get there, she worked at as many as seven extra jobs, even cleaning buildings at night, and she and her husband kept to a tight budget. It was tough going, but by 2005 she was debt free, having paid off her credit card debt and even her mortgage, she says.
Now, she sticks to a strict budget and banks all the money she used to plow into monthly payments to service debt into savings and a new-car fund.
Benefits of a credit-free lifestyle
Living off the credit grid has a lot of advantages for those who are willing and able to do it, says Lisa Kirchenbauer, president of Omega Wealth Management in Arlington, Va.
"Some of the (benefits) are obvious. If you've been living on credit, you're paying somebody else interest," Kirchenbauer says.
Not paying interest means you get to keep a lot more of your own money over your lifetime, she says.
Not being dependent on credit can also help you weather bad economic times. Mohammad says she's glad she convinced her siblings to go debt-free. When the economy soured and they were laid off, being debt-free made it a lot easier to stay financially solvent because they didn't have to use scarce resources to service debt.
Perhaps the biggest benefit of going to a cash-only lifestyle is that it forces you to keep closer tabs on the way you spend money, says Kirchenbauer.
That's especially true for those who have a hard time controlling their spending. Living off the credit grid can remove the temptation and the means for shopaholics to seriously overspend, says Burton.
She cites one client who would use her credit card and go on shopping binges, racking up as much as $6,000 in credit card debt in a few weeks. Working from cash only makes such binges much more difficult, she says.
A potential pitfall
However, not all of the financial consequences are positive. Not using any form of credit can eventually hurt your credit score, says Burton, and even the most diehard fans of living off the credit grid need a decent credit score if they ever do decide to go into debt or look for certain types of jobs.
She suggests keeping one credit card open in your name that you use occasionally, being sure to pay it off every month.
"It would be very rare that someone could make it through their entire lives and never need credit, and one of the things that we're seeing now to is potential employers looking at credit reports," says Burton. "Even if you're totally off the grid, you may work in a field that requires them to pull your credit history."
And any way you slice it, if you've been heavily relying on credit, you can probably expect to take a hit to your standard of living.
"A lot of our clients are spending a lot less. Their lifestyles are not nearly as extravagant as they were," says Burton. "You might not have as many lattes as you used to, you may not be shopping at the most expensive stores anymore. People are doing 'staycations' instead of extravagant vacations. But people are really proud of themselves for being able to take control of their spending, change their habits and start saving more."
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A Survey of Creationist Field Research
A solution to the question of origins cannot be found in the library stacks. The search goes on in the laboratory and out in the field, in biochemistry, paleontology, geology, and supporting disciplines in science. It was therefore inevitable that the "scientific" creationists would have to make a showing in "original research" to lend substance to their claim that the scientific data support biblical revelation over evolution. A summary of some field projects by the Institute for Creation Research will thus be of interest to those seeking to assess the validity of "creation-science."
The Search for Noah's Ark
Among the early ICR projects were the expeditions, begun in 1971, to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's ark. Though this age-old quest might seem barely amenable to scientific study, there is a Jacques Cousteau allure of being "on the scene" in scientific endeavors and, moreover, ark searches over the years have received good press.
The leader of these expeditions was John D. Morris, son of ICR director Henry Morris. Young Morris at that time had a B.S. in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where his father, a hydrologist who has written extensively on flood geology, had earlier been chairman of the civil engineering department. John Morris recently was awarded a Ph.D. in geological engineering at the University of Oklahoma.
From these expeditions came John Morris's Adventure on Ararat and The Ark on Ararat , two books still featured in the ICR catalog. Adventure on Ararat is described in glowing terms in a 1974 handout as, "A fascinating first-hand story of the search for Noah's ark, believed still to be preserved in a frozen lake somewhere on the high slopes of Mt. Ararat. Exciting adventure, danger, miraculous protection." These books record an enterprise that very evidently was poorly financed and manned.
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A chief backer was a middle-aged Michigan businessman who managed to keep going on the arduous mission to the snow fields at the crest of the 17,000-foot peak. The group of young explorers admittedly had minimal mountaineering experience. The requirements for the volunteers, in fact, had little to do with climbing abilities or scientific background. The criteria specified that participants, financed by families or church groups, should be literate and fluent so as to better relate on their return their experiences to audiences. And they had much to tell.
The group found itself in a restless corner of Turkey, which bordered the Soviet Union and Iran and where Kurdish tribesmen long have been in revolt. Suspicious natives fired on the party. Equipment was looted. Bad weather harassed them. There were rock falls, and, during a storm, three members were knocked down by lightning. There was even a brief dispute about leadership which Morris soon settled, convinced, he wrote, that Satan had entered the camp.
There were "sightings" of the ark in the inhospitable terrain of treacherous gorges, but the ark eluded discovery. Morris, writing from his engineering background (as he points out in his reports), nonetheless concluded that the ark must have had a capacity equal to 567 standard railroad stock cars which could hold 50,000 animals. Drawing on zoological research, he saw no great problem concerning the handling of the varied cargo. In time of peril, he argued, such as during floods and forest fires, animals may undergo personality changes and freely mingle.
Future attempts to achieve success have been under discussion, but a member of the ICR staff has counseled that "the Lord will reveal the Ark at a time of His own choosing."
An Expedition to the Bannock Overthrust
Another challenging task was undertaken by the Institute in its investigation of the Bannock overthrust complex, which extends along adjoining corners of Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho. Mapping of rock outcrops in the area by the U.S. Geological Survey and various universities for over half a century shows widespread faulting along mountain fronts with strata pushed up and over other strata, this causing a doubling-up of the normal rock sequence in comparison to what is in adjacent undisturbed regions. The rocks involved are millions of years in age and more recent strata are found buried beneath overthrusts of much older formations.
This set of conclusions on overthrusts conflicts with the opinions of many creationists, including Professor Harold Slusher who teaches physics at the University of Texas-El Paso and who is head of the physical sciences department at Christian Heritage College, of which ICR is a division, and Clifford Burdick, who has been the advisor on geology for the Creation Research Society and was a consultant for, but nonparticipant on, the ark expeditions.
Assigned to the Bannock project, Slusher and Burdick, together with John Morris and Frank Baxter, proposed that the overthrusts and, in fact, the whole geologic column were the misconceptions of faithless stratigraphers in an attempt to support a sequence of evolutionary deposition over vast eras. To some creationists, such as John Morris, there was a destruction of preexisting strata during a worldwide flood, hence a mixing of sediments and their fossils. All this happened just prior to the Ice Age. Therefore, if they could prove that the Bannock overthrust, with attendant implications, did not exist, then evolution would be deprived of a major support, since fossils would lose their significance.
The four researchers were not pioneers in this venture. The same ground had been covered by George McCready Price, a "scientific" creationist of another generation, whose text, The New Geology , has a place in history as a classic example of pseudoscience.
The initial step in investigations such as these is to consult the literature of previous projects in order to determine what others have already done. Maps and reports were available that could have led the explorers to key areas, such as Monticello Canyon in Utah. There was no need to accept them as authority, but they did indicate where best to search.
Published reports of the ICR Bannock investigation in the November 1974 Acts & Facts , and elsewhere, suggest a hasty reconnaissance of a small part of the overthrusts region in the Wasatch Mountains near Ogden, Utah, and the Heart Mountain area in Cody, Wyoming. The research team reported some evidence of very rapid deposition of strata with an absence of thrusting or sliding. Yet there were inconclusive results, which will necessitate that some factors be rechecked.
Major oil companies, impelled by current energy needs, subsequently invested millions in stockholders' money in the costly venture of deep drilling in order to reach oil and gas which geologic maps suggested could be deeply buried beneath the overthrust. If creationist doubts proved to be valid, would the investments be misspent? Or would geophysics save the oil seekers from metaphysics?
The drillers penetrated ancient sterile strata, which thrust faulting had forced atop more recent petroliferous rocks. They were guided by the recovery of rock fragments and microfossils that have been identified in other oil and gas reservoirs. The result? They struck it rich with the discovery of new fields in both the Rocky Mountain (including the Bannock) and Appalachian thrust belts. The geologic column still stands.
Exploring Along the Paluxy River
If one were to accept the concept of a very young earth only a few thousand years old, would that mean that dinosaurs and humans existed together at the time of the deluge? This hypothesis has long fascinated ICR, and exploration to research it was started in 1975 in the Paluxy River area, near Glen Rose, Texas.
Few fossil localities have been explored so diligently over so long a period of time as was the Paluxy site. Tons of dinosaur tracks have been removed for display, such as that at the American Museum of Natural History. Paleontologists insist that there are no "human tracks" among these, but science is nourished by the unknown, and such a find would bring crowds to any museum door.
ICR actively entered the Paluxy scene as a result of interest that had been stimulated by a motion picture made by the Films for Christ Association, an Illinois operation. The film makers, in turn, had been attracted to the area by the writings of Burdick, who had been pursuing for forty years evidence of "giant humans" in North America.
Burdick has announced possession of human tracks, or at least plaster casts of these, and a large cat track, claimed to be that of a sabre-tooth tiger. The latter is mentioned in John Morris's book, Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs . . . and the People Who Knew Them , as "reported found in the Glen Rose limestone," the rock through which the Paluxy River has cut its channel. While references to the tiger track are vague, Morris points out that, since these cats are thought to have evolved some 50 million years ago and the Glen Rose strata are dated by geologists as being at least 100 million years old, this discovery "is almost as damaging to evolutionary theory" as are the purported human prints. "One well-documented factual observation," he says, quoting another creationist writer, "would rob the theory of the huge time spans regarded as the conditio sine qua non for evolution to have occurred."
Therein lies the rub. As of this article, not one impression of a human foot, in stone, has been removed from the Paluxy rocks under the precautions needed in such work so as to be available for scientific study. The ICR museum has impressions, but these are plaster casts, and paleontologists want original material for description and identification. There were some rubber pullings taken by the film makers, but word from the museum is that these have now "deteriorated."
Much of the locality where the tracks were supposedly found is state park land and therefore could not be removed without a permit. This is unfortunate, as Morris indicates. In 1975 he and Professor Edward Blick, a member of the ICR advisory board and also on the engineering faculty of the University of Oklahoma, were taken on a tour by Cecil Dougherty, a Glen Rose chiropractor who has been examining the river bed for many years. Dougherty showed them the "manlike tracks." These, Morris said, "included perhaps the most perfect track ever found. This recently exposed track was in a most vulnerable position and, within a year of its discovery, had completely eroded away."
Morris deplores the fact that other fundamentalists have been critical of the ICR operations in that area. Several universities, including Baylor (which is Baptist), Southern Methodist, and a group of Seventh Day Adventist colleges, have examined the dinosaur trackways. "Baylor studies have been the most extensive," he says, "but, of course, the idea of man prints is ridiculed." The Adventist schools, including California's Loma Linda University, studied the tracks (some of which appeared to be prints of moccasins) but felt that the case for human occupancy in the days of the giant reptiles had not been proved.
The subject is further fogged by the many reports of the fabrication of humanlike prints by residents of the Glen Rose area in an attempt to enhance tourist trade during the economic depression of the thirties.
Other Field Research
The April 1975 Acts & Facts reported the discovery of a new flood tradition by Les and Kathy Bruce, son-in-law and daughter of Henry Morris and missionary linguists with the Wycliffe Bible Translators. They had been working with the Alamblak tribe, who live along the Karawari and Wagumpmeri Rivers in northern Paupua-New Guinea, and had managed to combine into one tale various versions of a flood story from the four clan groups of the tribe. The conclusion was that, since "all nations are descended from the three sons of Noah," then "it would be expected that, through stories passed down (through generations], many of them would retain distorted memories of the great flood." The ICR people felt that this tribe's ancestors had to have had personal knowledge of the deluge, since the tribe now lives too far from Ararat and Babel "to have obtained the flood story from some other source." They disregard the fact that major floods have occurred throughout history in many parts of the globe and that this could be why "such flood stories have been found in tribes all over the world."
In light of this "original research," it appears that the claims of "scientific" creationism can easily be questioned. In fact, after investigating ICR's several field projects, Professor Donald J. Weinshank of Michigan State University could only conclude that "not one of these came even close to observing the accepted standards of the scientific method."
So, as the Institute for Creation Research pursues its mission to "save the world from Darwinism," it might well consider getting out of field work altogether and concentrating on what it does best—library research and quoting evolutionists out of context. Creation "science" is on safer ground being a species of literary criticism. The natural world is too full of booby traps for the eager believer and ICR has turned up nothing to date that its followers had not believed all along.
By Henry P. Zuidema
Tripping Over a Trilobite: A Study of the Meister Tracks
An Analysis of the Creationist Film, Footprints in Stone
Paluxy Man -- The Creationist Piltdown
Arkeology: A New Science in Support of Creation?
Issue 6 (Fall 1981)
News Briefs from the Editor
Misquoted Scientists Respond


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Angels on loan from God
townhall.com ^ | December 21,2001 | Michelle Malkin
Posted on 12/21/2001 6:33:02 AM PST by chatham
Michelle Malkin, December 21, 2001 Angels on loan from GOD Suffer the little children to come unto Me ... for of such is the kingdom of God. -- Mark 10:14 This is supposed to be the season for stealing merry midnight glimpses of our children, nestled all snug in their beds, while icicle lights gleam in the windows. But holiday spirits this year hang low, like evergreen boughs after a mighty snowstorm. The shock of Sept. 11 has melted, but not the sorrow. It is difficult to look in on my own blissfully sleeping toddler without thinking of the empty cribs and broken hearts of children whose lives were stolen or shattered by evil terrorists. Eight children were murdered on hijacked airliners that crashed on Sept. 11. Christine Hanson, 3, was on United Airlines Flight 175 with her parents. She was on her first trip to Disneyland. Christine was brown-eyed and rosy-cheeked and button-nosed. At family meals, she made everyone stand and hold hands while singing the theme song from Barney. During Christine's funeral, mourners re-enacted the scene, singing: "I love you, you love me ... " Two other youngsters rode on Christine's flight. Juliana McCourt, 4, was traveling with her mom. The smiling tot with pixie bangs was also on her way to Disneyland. David Brandhorst, 3, was traveling with his adoptive dad and his companion. Blessed with chestnut hair, chubby hands and blue eyes, David liked riding high on every toddler's favorite perch: Daddy's shoulders. Sisters Zoe Falkenberg, 8, and Dana, 3, accompanied their parents on American Airlines Flight 77. The family was headed to Australia for a two-month adventure. Zoe collected snow globes and Beanie Babies. She and curly-haired Dana took swimming lessons at their local YMCA. A guitarist played "Puff the Magic Dragon" at the girls' funeral. Also onboard Flight 77: Bernard Brown Jr., 11; Rodney Dickens, 11; and Asia Cottom, 11, all Washington, D.C., public schoolchildren traveling with their teachers on an educational trip. Bernard was a Michael Jordan fan. Rodney loved Pokemon. Asia liked Tweety Bird. Along with Christine, Juliana, David, Zoe, Dana, Bernard, Rodney and Asia, there were an unknown number of unborn lives taken on Sept. 11. These littlest victims, rarely mentioned, died in the wombs of mothers fatally trapped in smoke-filled staircases and crumbling offices at the World Trade Center. Patricia A. Massari, 25, had just learned she was pregnant on the morning of the attack. She dialed her husband at 8:40 am from the 98th floor of Tower One to share the results of a pregnancy test. Massari was on the phone when the plane hit. Helen Crossin-Kittle, 34, was a Cantor Fitzgerald employee on the 103rd floor of Tower One. She was five months pregnant. Jennifer Dorsey-Howley, 34, worked at AON insurance. She was six months pregnant and was reportedly walking up a staircase in Tower Two when the plane hit. Deanna Galante, 32, worked on the 106th floor of Tower One. She was eight months pregnant with her first child. "We bought baby clothes and diapers," her husband said. "We had ordered Disney books. One came in the mail after this happened." Krystine Bordenabe, 33, worked on the 69th floor of Tower Two. She was eight months pregnant and planned to be a stay-at-home mom. On her baby's ultrasound photos, she wrote: "The baby's OK, everything's great!" Thousands of children were left behind. Jake Siller, 2, clutches a photo of his firefighter Dad and asks: "Daddy home? Daddy home?" When told that her father died in the attacks, Cara Colasanti, 4, replied: "Maybe Daddy fainted." Robert Shay, 5, stuck stars in his windows "so my daddy can see where I am." And every night, Matthew, 9; Erin, 6; Mark 4; and Grace Brady, 2, recite a prayer taught to them by their father, a business executive who died at Ground Zero: "Thank you, Jesus, for the love you bring. Thank you, Jesus, for everything." The children of Sept. 11, angels on loan from God, will not have suffered in vain if we take their divine message to heart. Be grateful every single day of the year for the gift of life -- for warm cheeks and baby-soft skin, joyous giggles and piggy toes, butterfly kisses, silly songs, wide eyes all aglow, and the dancing sugarplum dreams of innocents. Contact Michelle Malkin ©2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
This is such a touching article written with love. How our Media can focus on such a wastrel as walker ,when there are thousands of people whose lives are destroyed by these Barbaric Islamic Murderers.
1 posted on 12/21/2001 6:33:02 AM PST by chatham
To: chatham
Suffer the little children to come unto Me ... for of such is the kingdom of God. -- Mark 10:14
This is supposed to be the season for stealing merry midnight glimpses of our children, nestled all snug in their beds, while icicle lights gleam in the windows. But holiday spirits this year hang low, like evergreen boughs after a mighty snowstorm. The shock of Sept. 11 has melted, but not the sorrow. It is difficult to look in on my own blissfully sleeping toddler without thinking of the empty cribs and broken hearts of children whose lives were stolen or shattered by evil terrorists.
Eight children were murdered on hijacked airliners that crashed on Sept. 11. Christine Hanson, 3, was on United Airlines Flight 175 with her parents. She was on her first trip to Disneyland. Christine was brown-eyed and rosy-cheeked and button-nosed. At family meals, she made everyone stand and hold hands while singing the theme song from Barney. During Christine's funeral, mourners re-enacted the scene, singing:
"I love you, you love me ... "
Two other youngsters rode on Christine's flight. Juliana McCourt, 4, was traveling with her mom. The smiling tot with pixie bangs was also on her way to Disneyland. David Brandhorst, 3, was traveling with his adoptive dad and his companion. Blessed with chestnut hair, chubby hands and blue eyes, David liked riding high on every toddler's favorite perch: Daddy's shoulders.
Sisters Zoe Falkenberg, 8, and Dana, 3, accompanied their parents on American Airlines Flight 77. The family was headed to Australia for a two-month adventure. Zoe collected snow globes and Beanie Babies. She and curly-haired Dana took swimming lessons at their local YMCA. A guitarist played "Puff the Magic Dragon" at the girls' funeral.
Also onboard Flight 77: Bernard Brown Jr., 11; Rodney Dickens, 11; and Asia Cottom, 11, all Washington, D.C., public schoolchildren traveling with their teachers on an educational trip. Bernard was a Michael Jordan fan. Rodney loved Pokemon. Asia liked Tweety Bird.
Along with Christine, Juliana, David, Zoe, Dana, Bernard, Rodney and Asia, there were an unknown number of unborn lives taken on Sept. 11. These littlest victims, rarely mentioned, died in the wombs of mothers fatally trapped in smoke-filled staircases and crumbling offices at the World Trade Center.
Patricia A. Massari, 25, had just learned she was pregnant on the morning of the attack. She dialed her husband at 8:40 am from the 98th floor of Tower One to share the results of a pregnancy test. Massari was on the phone when the plane hit. Helen Crossin-Kittle, 34, was a Cantor Fitzgerald employee on the 103rd floor of Tower One. She was five months pregnant. Jennifer Dorsey-Howley, 34, worked at AON insurance. She was six months pregnant and was reportedly walking up a staircase in Tower Two when the plane hit.
Deanna Galante, 32, worked on the 106th floor of Tower One. She was eight months pregnant with her first child. "We bought baby clothes and diapers," her husband said. "We had ordered Disney books. One came in the mail after this happened." Krystine Bordenabe, 33, worked on the 69th floor of Tower Two. She was eight months pregnant and planned to be a stay-at-home mom. On her baby's ultrasound photos, she wrote: "The baby's OK, everything's great!"
Thousands of children were left behind. Jake Siller, 2, clutches a photo of his firefighter Dad and asks: "Daddy home? Daddy home?" When told that her father died in the attacks, Cara Colasanti, 4, replied: "Maybe Daddy fainted." Robert Shay, 5, stuck stars in his windows "so my daddy can see where I am."
And every night, Matthew, 9; Erin, 6; Mark 4; and Grace Brady, 2, recite a prayer taught to them by their father, a business executive who died at Ground Zero: "Thank you, Jesus, for the love you bring. Thank you, Jesus, for everything."
The children of Sept. 11, angels on loan from God, will not have suffered in vain if we take their divine message to heart. Be grateful every single day of the year for the gift of life -- for warm cheeks and baby-soft skin, joyous giggles and piggy toes, butterfly kisses, silly songs, wide eyes all aglow, and the dancing sugarplum dreams of innocents.
2 posted on 12/21/2001 6:42:04 AM PST by michigander
To: michigander
BTTT
3 posted on 12/21/2001 6:49:37 AM PST by Fiddlstix
Sorry about that,I didn't check properly!
Name: Christine Lee Hanson, Age: 2, Residence: Groton, MA, United States, Location: UA Flight 175
Name: David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, Age: 3, Residence: Los Angeles, CA, United States, Location: UA Flight 175
Name: Dana Falkenberg, Age: 3, Residence: University Park, MD, United States, Location: AA Flight 77
Name: Juliana Valentine McCourt, Age: 4, Residence: New London, CT, United States, Location: UA Flight 175
The followers of Islam murdered these little children and the unborn children mentioned in this story. We now know that the Saudi's supported the murderers. They should understand that if any more of our children are harmed the response will be frightful.
5 posted on 12/21/2001 6:56:18 AM PST by isthisnickcool
To: isthisnickcool
We now know that the Saudi's supported the murderers. They should understand that if any more of our children are harmed the response will be frightful.
Any more? I refuse to let these children go unavenged. We need to dramatically expand our covert action capability to deliver justice to the physically, morally, and financially culpable. We need to assassinate those who directly perpetrate terrorist acts, those who encourage them (the mullahs who incite terror, issue fatwahs, and glorify suicide attackers), and those who finance them - wherever they are. If some of our targets are in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, London, Paris - It ought not make any difference. We must mete out justice wherever our enemies hide, two silenced subsonic hollow points at a time...
6 posted on 12/21/2001 7:38:07 AM PST by LouD
To: LouD
I agree. I didn't say it but I meant the total destruction of Mecca and Medina.